Sound Effects

As the project draws to a close one of the most fun stages of production is sound design. Because we typically produce musical videos, you could watch our videos with no sound design at all and still get the entire story… but as soon as we add the thumps, chops, explosions and screams it REALLY brings the piece to life! Sound design is one of those “unnoticed arts” meaning if it draws too much attention to itself then the designer hasn’t done a great job. On the other hand if the sound design FEELS right and supports the action then you take it for granted as if it just belongs. Our in-house team was lucky enough to partner up with Jeff Shiffman of Sound Underground, who really helped push the sound effects over the top. Once we got all our effects in place we hooked up with the Maestro, Freddie “the Fredmeister” Wiedmann to do our sound mix. While sound design is supposed to be an unnoticed art we were so impressed with the work everyone did on it we wanted to shine a little light on it. Here is a pass of the video with everything but the sound design stripped out. Check it out…

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I consider myself quite the critic, an artistic eye can be a curse. But….your Obama video,,,,,absolutely AWESOME. I cannot believe the genius that is expressed in your film. Even though I’m not an Obama fan, you guys should win an award for the excellent artistry, from all aspects,,,,,story line, music, the art and creativeness. There is nothing, in your clip that can be improved upon. It makes me wish I’d done more with my talents in my younger days. I’m going to forward this to my daughter and her husband, maybe it will inspire them to do something with their talents. Keep up the good work!
GREAT JOB!!!!!
sherrie

I echo Sherries sentiment. As a film school graduate of the 80’s, I come from both old school and new age production environments. When I watched your video, the first thing I did was send out an industry wide email. Its one line cry was “The production value of this video is off the charts!” Right when I thought the “little guy” had no chance, you guy’s go and re-inspire me.
I can’t thank you enough.

AMAZING! I’m a fan of animation and sound design myself, and I have to say that the video alone without the words or music is phenominal! That’s the kind of thing I want to do someday (recording and editing sounds).

The sound effects are amazing amazing, the art.. out of this world. The animations, well they speak for themselves. I’m really impressed with the amount of talent that JibJab are currently housing, to produce a video of this quality in a few months. WoW. I’ve just completed a degree in games design, so I know a bit of what goes into the creation of such things. Will be forwarding this video to every person on the planet!